Profiler

Profiler

Profiler

Profiler

Agent Bailey Malone

Det. John Grant

Grace Alvarez

George Fraley

Dr. Samantha 'Sam' Waters

Angel Brown

Jack of All Trades

Throughout the series the producers used stylized visual sequences to illustrate Sam's intuitive leaps. Because the show debuted at the same time as the similarly themed Millennium (1996), which stared a profiler with actual psychic abilities illustrated with similar stylized segments, many assumed that Sam was supposed to be psychic. In reality the flashes were never supposed to be psychic. Instead they were supposed to illustrate Sam's thought process as she made intuitive leaps.

Dr. Samantha "Sam" Waters: I thought you said you were gonna cut back on the drinking.

Dr. Samantha "Sam" Waters: Maybe he's destroying perfection.

John Grant: Me, me, me. The guy needs to learn a new pronoun.